'Not a happy departure': Famed NY Times columnist sounds off after abrupt exit

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12. i don't understand how newspapers would make most of their money off of

the top 5%. Those 5% are only going to buy so many newspapers compared to the rest.
Stockholders and owners are another thing. I don't recall stockholders being a problem at WaPo when Woodward and Bernstein became famous. What mattered was not the politics of the stockholders but whether the story proved to be true, and therefore worth reading.

The difference to my mind is the owner.
Neither then or now does the owner need the income from the paper. WaPo is insignificant in Bezos holdings.
It is ultimately about what Bezos thinks he can gain from cow-towing to Trump, separate from the actual finances of the paper.
It's less about the finances of the newspaper business and more about oligarchy.

I know less about NYT but I suspect oligarchy is at play here. Less blatant because there has been a mix of results from NYT, but definitely moving in the direction of afraid to speak to power.